Perhaps what’s really going on to give me that impression is:
LW is confident that libertarian free will is incoherent or at least non-existent
so when people here talk (explicitly or implicitly) about exercising free will, they usually mean it in the compatibilist sense, and often treat that as the only possible sense
Which doesn’t actually imply that a high proportion would identify themselves as compatibilists. (I thought there would be survey results to clear this up, but all I could find with a quick search was a very old one with only hard-to-decode raw data accessible.)
Perhaps what’s really going on to give me that impression is:
LW is confident that libertarian free will is incoherent or at least non-existent
so when people here talk (explicitly or implicitly) about exercising free will, they usually mean it in the compatibilist sense, and often treat that as the only possible sense
Which doesn’t actually imply that a high proportion would identify themselves as compatibilists. (I thought there would be survey results to clear this up, but all I could find with a quick search was a very old one with only hard-to-decode raw data accessible.)